Time is the most valuable asset you own. And whether you realise it or not, how you use or don’t use your time everyday is probably going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you. Not your dreams. Not your best intentions. But your habits. Some people might say, "Just follow …
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1. The Stone After the Throw Oh, how much easier it is to see the faults in others than it is to see our own faults! How quick we are to attack someone else or to pass judgment on them. And yet these stones we hurl at others can never be retrieved. Jesus knew this. …
"A simple life in the fear of God is better than a rich life with a ton of headaches" - Proverbs 15:6 I've shared a lot on this blog about simplifying your life, but here's the problem when it comes to trying to keep things simple: It's really hard! It seems life tends to move …
I don’t have time to read. We all know reading is important and we should read more, but how many of us have free time that we can spend curled up on the couch with a good book? There are only 24 hours in a day. Most of us spend 8-10 hours (hopefully not much …
700 billion minutes. That's how much time Facebook's 500 million active users spend on the site every month! 700 000 000 000 minutes. That's the equivalent of 1,3 million years - nearly 18 000 lifetimes! And 7 years ago Facebook didn't even exist! What did we use to do with all that time?? A recent …
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What is it with hotel shower curtains?I'll admit I haven't stayed in thousands of hotels, but it seems like almost all of the ones I have stayed in have had really crappy shower curtains. You know the ones that are a little bit porous and never quite wide enough. Even though you are super careful …
If you want to find out where you are, you need some sort of reference point. A lighthouse on a hill, a beacon by which you are able to navigate. Lets call this beacon "the future". It represents where you are heading, the person you want to become, and the achievements you hope to attain. …
Recently I've been making a lot of excuses to myself. Reasons not to exercise, or eat healthy, or spend time in prayer. And it's mainly because things have been so crazy lately. As I mentioned in a previous blog, we're in the midst of renovations at home (never again!), preparing for a baby, along with a …
In my last blog we looked at the "curse of busyness". And I asked the question, how can we learn to "redeem the time" when we feel pulled in a dozen different directions? As Jill Savage writes, "Most of us long for balance in our life and margin in our days. We don’t like the …
Too often I find myself thinking, "I’m just too busy..." to keep up with friends. to get all my work done. to read my bible. to rest. to engage people like I want to. The reality is we live in a culture that is moving faster and faster. And things don't seem to be slowing …
